Backing up "Thirdparty" stuff with PBS

[dura-zell]

Hi

I'm searching for hints of how to Backup anything "not PVE" related utilizing PBS.
I'm mostly concernded about some "bare metal" Windows servers on a remote location (a second location running Hyper-V is also in play but not "critcal" at the moment).
As I understand there is no "production ready" Agent available for this, so currently, as I see it, my best option would be to use PBS for all PVE related stuff and "something else" for the remote location.

What are you guys using for this or similar requirements?

Greetings,

 

[fabian]

for Linux hosts, you can use the backup client and either do image-based backups of files or block devices, or dir/file-based backups of directory trees. you need to ensure consistency yourself in that case.

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#creating-backups

 

[dura-zell]

Thanks Fabian for the clarification.
So for Bare-Metal Windows the best Option currently is "something else". No big issue but needed to account for.
Grretings
Dura

 

[fabian]

yes. unless you only care about the file names and contents, and not the windows metadata or additional windows-related features, in that case something like a CIFS export and backing up via that (from a linux host) might be an option.

 

[dura-zell]

No, not really. It should be closest to the kind of backup would get when doing a complete VM backup. The goal would be to reimage the machine and then continue operation.

Greetings,

 

[fabian]

yeah, that would currently only be possible (on the block level) by either booting a live-CD with proxmox-backup-client and backing up the full disk, or somehow creating a storage snapshot and making that available to a linux system as block device to create the backup..